Re: Negative string offsets

I warned this would lead to the Python syntax... I'm not saying it's a bad thing, and I think it actually has it's uses! And I won't defend the "confusion" between arrays and strings because the intention should be to treat developers as smart to handle the validation of variables prior to using type-specific syntax. But those examples now make me want to simplify the substr usage with an imitation of the Python syntax, I can see the possibilities! (= On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Andreas Heigl <andreas@heigl.org> wrote: > On 17.04.14 18:20, Crypto Compress wrote: > > "foobarbazbuz"[4:7] => "barbazb" > > "foobarbazbuz"[4-7] => "barb" > > "foobarbazbuz"[4,7] => ["b", "b"] > > ... > > > "foobarbazbuz"[4,7,8,12] => ["b", "b", "a", > "z"] ? > "foobarbazbuz"[4,7-8,3:2] => ["b", "ba", "ob"] ??? > "foobarbazbuz"[4:3,4] => ["bar", "b"] or ["bar", > "barb"] ????? > "foobärbuz"[5] => [\xC3] or ["ä"] ???? > > Regards > > Andreas > -- > ,,, > (o o) > +---------------------------------------------------------ooO-(_)-Ooo-+ > | Andreas Heigl | > | mailto:andreas@heigl.org N > 50°22'59.5" E 08°23'58" | > | http://andreas.heigl.org > http://hei.gl/wiFKy7 | > +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | http://hei.gl/root-ca > | > +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ > >